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they were placed in large empty
building, lately occupied as store, also
in the public school house and in the
depot waiting room. The residents of
the town threw open their houses for
the reception OF the dead and wounded,
but the former were all taken to the inn
prOviSed morgues. Friends and relatives
of the dead came to ChatSwOrth with the
remains, and the scenes in the different
places where the bodies lay was most
heartrending and distressing. AS the
day passed bodies were being contin-
ually brought in from the scene
of the wreck. The majority of them
were mangled in the most frightful
manner, many of them having their
faces entirely torn away. leaving their
brain exposed, while their jaws, fingers
and legs had been torn off.
CHARNEL HOUSES AND HOSPITALS
make UP tonight what has been the
peaceful village of Chatsworth. Of 960
merry eXcursionists journeying by here
to the falls of Niagara-twenty-fou
hours ago, fully half that number have
since passed through m2lstrOm more
fearful than all the whirling waters
they were travelling to see. Eighty
four of the blackened, mangled cOrpSeS
are scattered at the depot. schools and
engine houses here and at Piper City or
are being carried on trains in all direc-
tiOnS to their homes, while
1l5 bandaged, moaning cripples
are stretched on all the available
mattresses, beds and floors in this
vicinity, struggling for little lease of
life. The streets of Chatsworth are
filled with crowds of anxious seekers
for friends and relatives, and with other
crowds of bustling people hurrying for
medicines, slowly bearing rude pine
cOf1inS to the trains or talking earn
estly of the horror that has caused the
CONSERVATION.
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alleged, has been wanted in Brown
county during the last three years for
series of the most daring robberies that
ever occurred there. The story is that
about four years ago Blumen, that was
the leader of gang of desperadOeS
known as the ''Fence Rangers in ;
Brown county, who swept through that
section, tearing down fences, running
Off herds of cattle, and rObbing stores
wherever their playful fancy led them
in that direction. They were the terror
of the whole section, and although many
attempts were made to arrest the gang.
they all proved futile. BlumenthaE
had gained an ascendancy over
his companions by his ability with
the rifle. He could shoot anything that
miss his aim. Sheriff Adams has been
on track of Blumenthal for more than
two years and finally located him at the
Washington arsenal. BlumeIthal en-
listed in Little Rock, Ark, three years
ago under the assumed name of James
T. Adams. When Blumenthal was sent
for and brought before the sheriff he
started back in alarm, eXclaiming:
"Bill Adams eyes, Bill Adams,''
said the sheriff, approaching the startled
soldier, land | am glad to see that you
know me so we'll" The speaker was
short muscular man with weather
beaten face. He limped decidedly as
he walked, but had such look of de-
termination about him that it was evil
dent, though cripple he was equal to
every emergency. He was dressed in
the regulation Western costume, white
sOmbrerO, flannel shirt with a wide
collar, short sack coat and trousers in
cased at the bottom in a pair of high
top boots. About his waist was a cart
ridge belt, from which hung two Colts
revolvers. The hilt of a formidable
bowie knife was just visible above his
boot top. you've got the drop on me
this time, Bill" said the soldier, who
had now recovered his self-possession,
land | am willing to throw up my
hands, A short conversation then en-
sued, after which Detective MahOn, the
soldier and the man with the sOmbrero
entered the carriage and drove away.
The officers at the arsenal were aston
ished at Blumenthal'S arrest. He was
well thought of by all the soldiers and
his skill with the rifle had made him a
general favOrite. Sheriff Adams is de-
lighted at capturing Blumenthal, and
SwearS that he will have no further
chances for escape. What the prison.
er'S treatment will be when he is taken
to the scenes of his former crimes cane
not be predicted.
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ONE OF THE LUCKY.
Talk With a Galesburg Man Who
ESCaped.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE Times Gales
burg, ILL.,, special says: A number of
Galesburg people who were on the ex-
cursion train returned tonight. w.
Quicker and wife were in the rear end
of the chair car. ''The shock came'abOut
11:5O. was rOused,'' said Mr.. Quicker,
''by the smashing of glass and the
breaking of car timbers and by
shriekS of pain and cries for
help. Our car had been telescoped
and was standing nearly on end,
our end being twenty-five feet in the
air. | broke a car window and managed
to slide down the side. Others of our
party did the same. Our car was a sight,
the top parted and
THE SIDES CRUSHED IN.
At the time of the accident there
were thirty in the car. Six of us got out
alive. 1t was horrible. There were
hardly any lights to be had. There was
no water. The cars caught fire, and will
low switches and earth were used to put
out the flames. | saw most pathetic
sights. parents carrying dead children
in their arms, children clamOring for
their parents, wounded persons crawl
ing painfully into the adjacent corn
fields, and cries for water and for
help prevailing OH all sides. A woman
sitting i'll front of me had her head
taken off. Six young man from Canton,
in the front car, were saved by being
thrown by the shock through the parted
roof. l heard that one men who had
lost his wife and child committed sui
eide. The bridge was
A WOODEN CONCERN,
no iron or stone, and looked to me like
a weak structure for double header.
The hot rails spread about the time the
locomotives were fairly on the bridge.
The two locomotives ran into the en-
bankment and rolled down its side.
The cars went in every direction piling
upin huge masses" The other GaleSburg
people agree in the statement about the
tiimsy character of the bridge. p. p.
Vanlew, of GaleSburg, was in the chair
car mentioned moment before the ac-
cident. He walked to the end of the
car that suffered the most and was dan
gerously injured. w. NJ. Collins, of
this city, was killed. Mrs. E. NJ. Smeder-
ker, of Abingdon, was killed and her
little son lost leg. Mrs. S. Nj. Smith,
of Galesburg, was badly injured. Mrs.
A. J. Mcclure and, baby were killed.
Her husband is a railroad contractor,
now employed here. The intense ex-
citement has prevailed here all day.
The GaleSburg party above mentioned
were in one of the SleeperS and so eS-
capped uninjured.
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The Chicago Boodlers.

CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-Ahout the last
scenes in the great Doodle case were
enacted to-day. Commissioners Cassell-
man, Oliver and Mccarthy who had been
fined 81, 900 by the jury were arraigned to-
gether for sentence before Judge Jamle-
son and crowded court room. Stand
ing in an irregular line, none of them
erect, and all with flushed faces and
eyes Oh the floor, the trio heard the for
NAL decree of their disgrace. Not one
had word to say in their own behalf.
They quickly paid their fines and disap-
peared from the room. Informers Lynn
and Klehm. commissioners like the
others, were brought, and, craving
mercy of the judge, pleaded guilty, and
were let Off also with a fine of $1,000
each. McCloughrey made IA long plea
in his own behalf. When he finished
he said: eff your honor considers that
you can with propriety and justice SEN
tence me to the penitentiary you may
proceed to do so. l have nothing moro
TO SAW
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one pile; if alive. they put them in an
other. Every live person seemed to
want to see their families at once. There
were III Mrs. James Deals party five
people; herself, Mrs. William Allen,
Miss Ada Webster, Mrs. William Ball
and Jennie O'Shaughnessey. Every
one of them were killed but the last and
were horribly disfgured. 1t was late in
the afternoon before they were recOg
nized. One of the horrible incidents
was that of man, well dressed, who
was so badly injured that his bowels
were prOtruding. He called necessarily
tended to he finally pulled out his re-
7EOlver and shot himself through the
head. One little boy, the son of the
Methodist minister at Abingdon. Frank
Snadecker, about twelve years old, was
found on the bosom of his dead mother.
His left leg hung by the skin. His right
arm was broken, and one eye was put
out: He never uttered a grOan. They
pulled him out and tried to give him
drink of brandy. He refused to take it
and said, "Give me water" found
A HEAD HANGING FROM THE TRUCK
He was apparently man and had
been caught by the hair. l found
several headleSS bodies. Those who
lCSoS ulLcu Iuc utdtt llllHieuldlcly ttck-
eted them. Van SAINT and coroner Ben
nett were on board and did noble work.
George W. Scott, the coal man, recOg-
nized E. GOdel, the butcher. Mrs. Zim-
merman, Mrs. ValedjO and Captain
Dahlke, the harbor master, and Fred
Weinette the Ex-County treasurer, are
among the dead. One of the most awful
sights was that some of those released
robbed the dead of their watches and
valuables, and it was a theory among
some that the bridge was set on fire in
order to thus perpetrate robberies. Will
liam III Reagan, one of the force of the Pc
oria Watch company is among the dead.
Alex Richardson, the engraver, tele-
graphed that his wife and mother-in-law
are still in the ruins. A large number
of those who have been pulled out of
the wreck are still unidentified. The
people in the vicinity did what they
could. The fire department turned out
and everyone rendered all the assistance
possible. They opened the school house
in ChatSwOrth, summoned the phySi-
clans and did everything in their power.
The town resembles a hospital.
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the three dead bodies of that little fam
lily are now lying side by side in Chats
worth waiting to be identified.
A MORGUE INDEED.
ChatswOrth Turned Into a Verit-
able Dead House.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE Times spe-
cial says: ChatswOrth was turned into
a mOrgue to-day. The town hall, the
engine house and the depot were all
full of dead bodies, while every house
in the little village had its quota Of the
wounded. There were over 100 c0rpseS
lying in the eXtempOriZed dead houses,
and every man and womans was
turned into an amateur but Jealous
nurse. Over in lumber yard the
noise of hammers and saws rang
out in the air, and in it busy carpenters
were making rough cOffins to carry to
their homes the dead bodies of the ex-
cursiOnists who, twelve hours previous,
had left their homes full of pleasure
able expectations of the enjOymentthe
were going to have during the vacatbn
which had begun. When the negSof
the disaster was first flashed over. the
wires prompt aid was sent. DR.. Steele,
chief surgeon of the Toledo, Peoria q
Western road, had come Oh at once
IN A SPECIAL TRAIN,
and with him were two other surgeons
and their assistants. From Peoria also
came Drs. Martin, Baker, Flagloere and
johnson, and from every city whence
the unfortunate eXcurSiOnistS had come,
their physicians and friends hurried on
to help them. From Peoria had also
come delegations of the Red Men and
the Ancient Order of United Workmen,
number of both societies being on the
ill-fated train, ,and so alters o'clock in the
morning there were plenty of people to
do the work that needed such prompt
attention. In the town hall was the
main hospital, and in it anxious rela-
tives and sorrOwing friends sat, and
tanning gently the sufferers faces, que
ried the attending surgeons as they
bound up the wounds, and insisted that
there must be hope. Down in the dead
houses, fathers, husbands, brothers, sis
tiers, wives and children tearfully in
spected each face as it was uncovered,
and sighed as the features were un-
known, or cried out in anguish when
the well-remembered face, sometimes
fearfully mangled, ,butrecogniZable, was
uncovered. The entire capadity of the
little village was taxed, ,and kind-hearted
women drove in from miles to give their
gentle ministratiOnS to the sufferers.
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HUMAN HYENAS.
They Wrecked the Train and
Rnhhed the Victims.

CHATSwoRTH, ILL.,, Aug. H.-NO
sooner had the wreck occurred than a
scene of robbery commenced. Some
band of unspeakable miscreants, heart
less and with only criminal instincts,
was on hand, and like the guerillas who
thrOng battle field the night after the
conflict and fitch from the dead the
money which they receive for their
meagre pay, so last night, did these
human hyenas plunder the dead from
this terrible accident, and
TAKE EVEN TIE SHOES
which covered their feet. Who these
wretches are is not now known. Whether
they were band of pickpOckets who
accompanied the train or some robber
gang who were lurking in the vicinity
cannot be said. The horrible suspicion
exists, and there are many who give it
credence, that the accident was a delib-
erately planned case train wrecking;
that the bridge was set on fire by mis-
creants who hoped to seize the Oppor-
tuiity offered, and the fact that the
bridge was so far consumed at the time
the train came along, ,and the added fact
that the train was an hour and a half
late are pointed out as evidence of
A CAREFUL CONSPIRACY.
1t seems hardly possible that men
could be so lost to all the ordinary feel
ingS which animate the baseSt of the
human race; but still men who will rob
dead men, who will steal from the dying
and will plunder the wounded. held
down by broken beams of wrecked
car, wounded whose death by fire
seemed imminent, can do almost any
thing which is base, and that is what
these fiendS in human form did. They
went into the cars when the fire was
burning fiercely underneath, and, when
the poor wretcheS who were pinned
there begged them for Gods sake'' to
help them out, stripped them of their
watches and jewelry and searched their
pockets for money. When the dead
bodies were laid out in the cornfields
these hyenaS turned them over in their
search for valuableS, and that the plum
der was done ~ an organized gang was
proven by the fact that this morning
out in the cornfield sixteen purses, all
empty, were found in one heap. 1t was
CHASTITY plundering, and had the plum
dererS been caught this afternoon they
would surely have been lynched. A
dispatch from Peoria says:
ONE OF THE SURVIVORS
relates that as soon as the first engine
cleared the bridge the brush beneath it
famed up as if oil had been ignited. He
was fastened in the wreck and called
for assistance. He was aided by some
one outside, and as soon as he was
safely out of the wreck his rescuer
grasped his watch and tore it from him.
Another man was robbed of his chain.
the vandal failing to get his watch.
The fingers of several of the dead were
cut off upon which were valuable rings.
The robbery of the dead and injured
gave rise to the terrible report that the
bridge had been fired and the train
purpOsely wrecked for the sake of
plunder, but no confidence is placed in
the report at Peoria. 1t is believed that
the robbing was the work of people
who happened to be at hand.
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DARING TRAIN ROBBERY.
Four Arizona Desperadoes Ditch the
Passenger Express on the South
ern Pacific Road,
And After Securing a Large Amount
of Booty, Ride Away
in Triumph.
A Utah Assassin Shot to Death In the
Prison Grounds Near
Salt Lake.
A Texas Murderer Captured at Wash
ington---The General Grim
inal Record.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-THE west
bound passenger train on the Southern
Pacific was run off switch near PapagO,
about fifteen miles east of Tucson,
Ariz., last night by four masked men.
The engine was ditched and the ex-
press car robbed of about $500. The
robbery occurred at the same point where
the west-bound express was robbed in
April last. On the track beyond where
the train was brought to a standstill
the robbers had fastened three tOrpedOeS
to warn the engineer and compel him to
stop his train. The plan to turn the
switch and ditch the engine was evi-
IDENTITY thought of later. AS soon as the
train went in the ditch one of the robbers
who was upon the bank commenced
firing Winchester rifle. He shot twice
through the sleeper and twice through
the express. They then went to the
mail car and made the men come out
and go to the express. They ordered
the messenger to come out, but he
would not open the doors. They then
BLEW THE DOOR OPEN
with a giant cartridge and forced the
mail agent to go into the car ahead.
Two of the robbers then went in and
one of them had Route Agent Gault and
the mail agent in one end of the car
while the other covered Smith. the
messenger, with revolvers and made
him open the safe and put the money in
sack. They struck him over the head
with revolver once, but did not injure
him much. There were four men in the
gang. One was on the bank, one on the
opposite side of the train and two went
in the express car. They did not allow
any one to come out of the coaches. A
complete description of the robbers has
been obtained. and they are be-
lieved to be the same who
robbed the train in April. The
railway company and express COM
pany have each offered $1,000 for the
arrest of the robbers. The train was
not making full speed and the ditching
of the engine and the following car
kept the force of the shock from the
passenger coaches. Another engine
was sent out from Tucson Immediately
and the train was hauled into that
pIacp fsfl'F
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PRINTER WHITE.
He Gives a Vivid Description of
the Terrible Affair.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
PEORIA, ILL.,, Aug. 1.-THE train bear
ing the survivors of the terrible acci-
dent came in at 4:30 p. m. The sur
vivors say that the scenes at the wreck
were frightful. The cars took fire. and
as they had no water they were obliged
to eXtinguish the flames with dust taken
from the prairie. While they were at
work. tornado struck them, and the
shrieking of the wind added to the ter
rors of the scene. I'll. A. White, a
printer who lives in this city, was
among the survivors, and has given the
GLOBE correspondent full account of
the holocaust. He says: II was in the
second sleeper, and we were going
along about midnight, when there came
a peculiar joStling. / thought we had
been derailed. Our porter said, We are
all right when some one said:
THERE IS FIRE AHEAD
/ got up and went to the front. The
head engine had rushed on. The second
engine had tumbled into the chasm. 1t
had telescoped and the engineer was
shapeless mass. The first car was turned
to right angles with the track and the re-
llfdllilHS ClcfSll CiIS lclcSCOpcu' anu
piled up in heap. Several of us climbed
upon the cars with axes and lanterns
and went to work. The first man we
found was Billy Stevens, the confec-
toner. He was dead. We pulled him
out after some effort, and then pulled
his two daughters. Emma and Ida, out.
They were ali dead. Every one was
groaning and crying. Their feet seemed
jammed. Most of them had their legs
broken. After an hour and half we
cleared the car. They were offering
ESQ each for relief. Probably there
were a dozen bodies taken out. Mrs.
Deal was one of these. | then went
down on the ground and assisted in tax
ing the dead down. They put a plank
uD and then helped them out,
SLIDING THEM DOWN THE PLANK.
If they were dead they put them in
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HOW III HAPPENED.
A Theory That the Blaze Was Ac-
cidental.

CHATswORTH, III, Aug. n.-Indi-
rectly the catastrophe was ascribed to
the origin of so many other recent
great calamities, the continued drOuth.
The tall grass under a little
culvert ON the Toledo, Peoria &
Warsaw few miles east of
ChatswOrth had been rendered by the
sun as dry as tinder and last night To-
comotive spark set it ablaZe. The tim
berS of the culvert caught fire and
were SmOuldering unseen when
the train of excursioniSts from Peoria,
and Bloomington and neighboring
cities passed. There was a terrific
crash and all accident almost unprece-
dented in horr OF had passed into his
tory. That was the brief story quickly
CLEANED on the streets of Chatsworth
this evening
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Threaten to Kill Him.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 11.-Marsha1
NJ. Ross has advertised for sale $1,000
worth of property levied on in Taylor
county to satisfy a judgment for $4,000
by the federal court in favor of holders
of bonds issued on railroad subscrip-
ton. The date set is Aug. 20. No buy
ers will appear except eX-United States
Marshal Hunter, of Bardstown. who has
been hired by the bondholders to bid.
Several shipments of Winchester rifles
are said to have been made to Camp
bellsville. the county seat, for citizens
Hunter to take possession Of the prop
erty he may buy. They submitted to
the marshal's levies, but when the rep
resentatives of the bondholders comes,
they will more than likely kill him. A
strong effort is being made to compro-
mise before the day Of the sale.
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THE ENGINEER PROTESTED,
But the Train Went Out Solid Into
Deaths Jaws.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
PEORIA. ILL.,, Aug. 11.-This was un-
doubtedly the largest excursion that
ever pulled out of this city. Two en-
gines were required topull it. but only
one of these was attached at the depot,
the other being sent on ahead and being
taken on after the trains had cleared the
being placed at the rear of the train to
assist it in starting at the depot. Before
the train started, E. B. McClintock, one
of the engineers, eXpoStulated with
General Superintendent Armstrong
about the way the train was made up,
insisting that it ought to be taken out in
two sections. but his words were of no
avail. Poor fellow, he is dead now.
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A Bloody Fight.

ONANcocK. Va. Aug IA terrible
massacre occurred Monday night at
Cape Charles, in the lower part of the
Eastern shore of Virginia. A fleet of
fishing schooners arrived here Oh Mon
day night from the Rappalannock river.
freely, got into disturbance with some
of the citizens, which the town baiIiff
attempted to quiet. He was knocked
down several times by fisherman and,
iii revenge, opened fire on the strangers,
who were unarmed. Several citizens
also joined in the firing and many Of
the fishermen were wounded. The 9TH
ers fled to their boats and put out into
the bay. carrying with them all the
wounded except five. who were too
severely injured to get away. Several
of the wounded men will probably die.
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sumption is that it was ground to
atoms in the horrible millstones of the
engine and the tender, There have
been many guesses as to the origin of
the fire which weakened the bridge
and caused the accident. but SO far
they are nothing but gueSses.